Premiere Pro (Tutorial 2 - Animate)

Animating shapes in a sequence.

(Please go through the first tutorial if you are stuck or confused over some instructions.)

To animate shapes for a sequence you need to open up Premiere Pro, Open a new project and make sure the project is all set to the same editing. 

Once you have done that you go to File, New, Black Video.

Click Black Video and drag it onto the timeline to begin the sequence, this will be the background of the sequence and should look like this;

Once you have this you can then go to File > New > Colour Matte

You then choose a colour that you would like to use, by dragging the circle along the square for the brightness or darkness and drag the line up and down the side to slide through the colours.

 Once you have the colour you would like then name it so that when it shows up in the bottom left corner of the screen you can pick it out easily like so;

You then drag the colour onto the timeline to show it up on the video. It should look like this; 

 And on the screen it should look like this;

 This is the shape you will be using to animate on the sequence, but obviously it is too big, so to shrink it down and make it a more appropriate size, by doing what we did in the last tutorial. Changing the scale and position. To reach a simple square/rectangle like so;

If you would like to use a different shape you can go down the editing controls to this point;

 For example, if you would like a circle you click the circle shape;

 And by doing so your shape on the screen would change, like so;

But for this example I am going to keep it simple and use the rectangle/square shape.

So once you have shaped it, and made it scaled to the point you would like we move to the animating part of this tutorial. And to start animating simply drag the shape to where you would like the shape to enter the video(make sure it is actually off screen mostly though so it can appear to be entering) like so;

And then next to position and scale you will see a small grey clock; 

Click these so they turn blue. > 

This means it is now recording every little step you will make, and when you click these you should see a new tab open up like so; 

To actually animate the shape you must drag that blue tracker along the timeline in that tab, keeping in mind the further across you move it the less time your gonna give yourself to complete your actions, but you must always move this blue tracker before then moving the shape itself, like so; 

Every time you move the blue tracker a few grey pointers will mark the timeline, this is showing where it is going to save the movement up to that point, till you then have to move the tracker again to move the shape. 

For this example I moved it simply across the screen, but you could make it go up and down or corner diagonal across to another. 

NOTICE:
This is the same method you use to create animations using your own drawn and scanned in pieces of work, examples:

All you need to do is go on PhotoShop so that you can crop and rotate (Edit) the images so you can select certain patterns and such to create movements you want when you place them into Premiere Pro.




Once you have done this, you then use the same method as you would with the simple shapes you have used. By moving all the cropped and edited frames into a folder that you can ten import into Premiere Pro, and use.

But this is the end of the tutorial.